A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism. Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian. Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...

A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now. Number 143 of Yale French Studies, "The French Seventies", reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a pe...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud. In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imaginati...

The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the...

For sale in CIS only! With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today's crises. Seventy-five years after "1984" first published, George Orwell is back. Progre...

Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty. During his life he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of stories, reflections and personal writings which were published after his death. His no...

An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world. Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guide...

Artist Eric Ravilious's stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of artist Eric Ravilious's finest illustrated works, William Shakes...

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre. In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his coll...